Dominic Bryan 
Orange Parades [PDF ebook] 
The Politics of Ritual, Tradition and Control

In the first major study of the Protestant Loyalist Orange Order in Northern Ireland, Dominic Bryan provides a detailed ethnographic and historical study of Orange Order parades.



He looks at the development of the parades, the history of disputes over the parades, the structure and politics of the Orange Order, the organisation of loyalist bands, the role of social class in Unionist politics – and the anthropology of ritual itself.

Tabella dei contenuti

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Maps

1. Drumcree: An Introduction to Parade Disputes

2. Northern Ireland: Ethnicity Politics and Ritual

3. Appropriating William and Inventing the Twelfth

4. Parading ‘Respectable’ Politics

5. Rituals of State

6. ‘You Can March – Can Others?’

7. The Orange and other Loyal Orders

8. The Marching Season

9. The Twelfth

10. ‘Tradition’, Control and Resistance

11. Return To Drumcree

Appendix 1 The number of parades in Northern Ireland according to RUC statistics

Appendix 2 The ‘Marching Season’: Important Loyal Order

Parading Dates.

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Circa l’autore

Dominic Bryan is a reader at Queens University Belfast, he worked previously as a research officer at the Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster, Coleraine and has published widely on Irish History, including the book Orange Parades (Pluto Press, 2000).